Re: pg_restore [archiver] file offset in dump file is too

Tom Lane wrote:

>>          While Win32 supports 64-bit files, the MinGW API does not,
>>          meaning we have to build an fseeko replacement on top of the
>>          Win32 API, and we have to make sure MinGW handles it.
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>Wouldn't it be better to lobby the MinGW folk to fix their problem?
>Or even help them with it?  I can't see the rationale for implementing
>a workaround that helps only us.
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There is a library available from the gnuwin32 project that advertises 
fseeko and fseeko64. So we probably have a choice of requiring this 
library or doing it ourselves.

see http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libgw32c.htm


cheers

andrew